Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-08-11
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


Jackson streets are to have Edison
light.
Another rich coal mine has been
opened at Jackson.
The work of tubing the gas well at
Jackson has begun,
The Houghton Catholic church will be
lighted by electricity.
-oceana County is rejoicing in magnih-
cent crops of all kinds.
Adrian has ordered a $4,000 tax to
support its public schools.
Influential citizens Of Hancock de-
mand that the saloons Of the city observe
the law.
Mr.. Proper, of Mason County, weighs
344, which, considering who il is, seems
quito right.
Tho First Congregational Society Of
Jackson is about to build new chapel on
Waterloo street.
Rev. J. II. Cooper was ordained into
the Congregational ministry at Addison,
LenaWee county.
The annual encampment of the South
western Association G.. A. r. will be held
at Adrian, Aug. 80.
There are people in Jackson who ex-
pect to see ii become one of the great salt
producing cities of the State.
The Congregational Society of st.
Louis have engaged Rev. Woodmansee, of
Hudson, to be their pastor for time TO come.
Some one made "sneak" on the cash
drawer in johnson & Millard's drug store
at Adrian and robbed the till of some $50
or more.
AT South Haven there is a crab-apple
tree which is covered with little spurs like
porcupine quilts, and an apple grows at the
end of each.
~~s----y, r.o~-S-y -E4OasrOe,esS-sS-
$4,000 baskets.
From present indications the streets of
Jackson will be lighted under the Edison
system by the Markell Engineering Com
pany, of Detroit.
The steamer Winnie Wing attempted
to tow twenty-five spars in q raft from
Ludington to Chicago and lost eighteen Of
them, valued at $3.50 each.
Adrian has quit agitating the notion
of putting the postofice into the lower
story of the City Hall, and has commenced
to fight over locating the Public Library
there.
Frank S. Van Dyne, of Jackson, while
travelling with peddling outfit between
Danville end Williamson, reports that he
was attacked by highwaymen and robbed
of S75.
| On Tuesday evening n meeting was
held in Jackson in the interest of the Gin
and as far MS words and wind could go
the prospects met with big support.
Detective Snyder, of Jackson, arrived
in that city, having in his custody Allen p.
May, who stole watch and chain from
Mrs. Ida Lawson. of Jackson, last May,
and who was captured in southwestern
Iowa. The chain but not the watch was
recovered.
"A little child about Is months old, be-
longing TO Zephirm Either, who lives in
Uncle Dan Ryans property on Third
street, was playing with another little
child, and in the absence of Mrs. Either,
who was in another part of the house, fell
headforemost into q washtub which was
standing on the floor, and in which there
was some five or six inches Of water, and
before being discovered was drowned.
The official premium list of the thirty
ninth annual State fair, TO be held in Jack
son, Sept. 1923, shows premiums offered
on seventy classes. The rules require that
of these the entries in live stock, poultry,
and farm implements shall be in the hands
of the Secretary, J. G. Sterling, of Mon
roe, on or before Sept. /, entries of ma
chinery by Sept. Is, and applications fol
space by Sept. IL. The Secretary will be
in Jackson after Sept. 8.
For the farmers the present season ha.
been one of the best ever known on Lake
Superior The snow melted and warn
weather began rather later than usual, bu
during the last two months warm raini
have been very frequent and vegetation
has advanced with remarkable rapidity
The hay crop is particularly good, and th'
gardens and the potato lots present 6n'
appearance. This is in marked contrast Il
the season Of last year, when the weathe
was for months SO dry and hot that thu
crops amounted to scarcely anything.
The following table gives the plac'
, and time of holding the principal agri
. cultural fairs in this State; also the com
ing fall county exhibitions
. 'Allegan .Allegan ......... Oct At
I Branch. .......... .Coldwater.. .....S Sept 70
Berrien Mics. bept I'D
Calhoun .Marshall.. .........O Oct ~
Z Earnaught. ....... Romeo :...........Oct. ~
Eaton ............. Charlotte .........O Oct. Al
Gratiot. sltnaca ........'..'o oep1 80
Htllsdale. hillsuale. .........Oc@ -
| Ingham mason ............ Ocb lz-la
| Kalamazoo. ...... Kalamazoo. ...... Oct. ~
Lapeer. ...........l .lIaIeer. ...s's..ss. sept -
: Lenawee ..... Adrian ........ Sept. z7-s
u MnconD. ........... ..mount Olehehs'. oepL 20
: Manistee. .Onekama... sept ~